Lucky Number Music

Ascendant Yorkshire five-piece Priestgate have today announced their debut EP Eyes Closed For The Winter – out 25 March. (Pre) Order HERE.  Priestgate have also shared the EP’s title track and its accompanying video.

The follow up to previous single ‘Bedtime Story’ – their first for Lucky Number – ‘Eyes Closed For The Winter’ is yet another stellar slice of indie dream-pop with deft gothic undertones. Speaking on the new single, vocalist Rob Schofield explains: “‘Eyes Closed For The Winter’ is about how time affects us as people & how often we avoid things we’re scared to deal with. Sometimes the best medicine for this is to just close your eyes and accept that things can get a little hard at times.”

Produced by Nick Hodgson (Alfie Templeman), and mixed by Caesar Edmunds (Foals, The Killers, PJ Harvey), the Eyes Closed For The Winter EP is a formidable statement straight out the gates – and a window into the world of one of Britain’s most thrilling young bands.

Following recent dates with Dream Wife and The Ninth Wave the band will shortly head out on an Independent Venue Week tour alongside Deep Tan and Deadletter and will also support Walt Disco on their upcoming UK tour. Priestgate have also announced a headline show at the Polar Bear Club in Hull on 25 March, with pre-sale tickets available 19 Jan and general sale tickets available 21 January via the band’s website HERE.

After digging through our Lucky Number archives, we’re pleased to present the first Revive mix, collecting some past favourites and previously unreleased instrumentals in a laid back and carefully curated compilation. Intended as a soundtrack to any slow-down activity, please take a moment to relax, rewind and revive with these lo-fi and hi-fi indie selections.

Both the compilation and our YouTube visualiser above have art and animation by Mike Raymond, who previously designed HMLTD’s West of Eden album and merch.

Watch this space for more Revive mixes in the future!

We are delighted to announce the signing of rising NYC-based band Momma and, to celebrate, today release their dynamic, energising new single “Medicine” alongside a Hailey Heaton-directed video shot on VHS-C.

Produced and mixed by bassist Aron Kobayashi Ritch, it also marks Momma’s first song demoed and written in New York as a 4-piece of singers/guitarists Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten, bassist Aron Kobayashi Ritch, and drummer Zach CapittiFenton. The band explained: “The two guitar riffs were written by Etta and Allegra about a year before we actually brought it to the full band. When we wrote the first verse, we realised it was one of the first times we couldn’t write about heartbreak – we were both in very loving relationships. We wanted to write about that feeling of just being addicted to someone, and how someone else’s company can really feel like a drug.”

The band put out a breakthrough full-length, Two Of Me, in 2020 which saw Momma pick up significant support in their home country with the group featured by Rolling Stone (Artist You Need to Know), Pigeons & Planes (Best New Artists), NPR and LA Weekly. Momma also earned further praise and support from The FADER, Stereogum, Pitchfork, Paste, NYLON, and more.

The band will support their new labelmates Sunflower Bean on a series of US dates early next year with further plans for their first ever UK dates to be announced in due course.

Glasgow’s Walt Disco today shared ‘Macilent’, continuing their run of thundering, highly emotive singles coupled with stunning visuals. Speaking on the new track, frontperson James explains that “‘Macilent’ was written with Jessica Winter in August the day after the 3 trans women were attacked in Hollywood. All we could think about that day was the violence that trans and queer people face every-day. We wanted the song to convey the fear that we feel, the disgust, the exhaustion, but also the fading hope that it doesn’t have to be the way things are ‘We could be together, if you weren’t so violent’. ‘We’ve been around forever’ is almost a war-cry exclaiming that queer people and gender identities have always existed outside the binary.”.

The ‘Macilent’ video was directed by Eric J Liddle and Kasparas Vidunas and the release is also accompanied by the announcement of a UK and European tour for next spring including a show at London’s Scala – check dates below, tickets are on sale Friday Nov 12th at 10am. The 2022 tour comes after riotous shows this year at TRNSMT Festival and Dot To Dot as well as support dates for Duran Duran and an autumn UK headline tour.

New York trio Sunflower Bean — Julia Cumming (she/her), Nick Kivlen (he/him), and Jake Faber (she/they) — return with their first new material of 2021, the incredible new single “Baby Don’t Cry”, premiered by Radio 1’s Clara Amfo as the ‘Hottest Record In The World’. Written by the band, produced and mixed by UMO’s Jacob Portrait, co-engineered by Jake Faber and Portrait, and recorded between Electric Lady and Sunflower Bean Studios, “Baby Don’t Cry” is an exciting taste of what’s to come from Sunflower Bean in 2022.

The band says of the new song, “So many things in our lives are disposable. Content and news is consumed and discarded leaving us unfulfilled. ‘Baby Don’t Cry’ is about enjoying the real. The things right in front of us that give us meaning and how sometimes, even sad songs can give you that warm feeling of hope.”

Alongside the release, the band have announced new U.K. tour dates for next year, including a show at the Electric Ballroom in London, tickets available HERE.